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Disable poof

There are several ways to disable poof depending on your needs. You can remove individual binaries, temporarily disable poof for a shell session, or permanently disable it without uninstalling.

Remove a binary provided by poof from $PATH​

You can use unlink command for that. For example, if you installed sometool with poof and want to remove it from $PATH:

poof unlink sometool

Later you can re-add it via the use command:

poof use someuser/sometool

use command picks newest installed version if no version is given.

Remove poof bin directory from $PATH​

poof's bin directory by default is added at the beginning of $PATH so that binaries in it take precedence over any other same-named version you may have installed other ways.

If you want to disable poof without uninstalling it, you can do so by removing its bin directory from your $PATH.

Temporarily​

Remove the directory from $PATH variable in your shell session. Below is a handy one-liner.

On Linux:

export PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | tr ':' '\n' | grep -v "$HOME/.local/share/poof/bin" | paste -sd ':')

On macOS:

export PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | tr ':' '\n' | grep -v "$HOME/Library/Application Support/poof/bin" | paste -sd ':')

Permanently​

  1. Comment out the line adding poof's bin directory to $PATH in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file.
  2. Then source your configuration or reload your shell.

This will disable poof removing provided binaries from $PATH without removing it. Check the steps in Uninstall page to know how to remove poof from your machine.